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Google Earth leads to remains of missing Florida man in lake for 22 yrs


ABC News
Thu, 12 Sep 2019 20:17 UTC
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The car was spotted submerged in a lake just yards from nearby homes in Moon Bay Circle
It took 22 years, but a missing man's remains were finally found thanks to someone who zoomed in on his former Florida neighborhood with Google satellite images and noticed a car submerged in a lake, authorities said.

The skeletal remains were of William Moldt, who went missing in 1997 at the age of 40, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera said on Thursday that a previous resident of the Grand Isles neighborhood in Wellington, Florida, was checking the neighborhood on Google Earth when he zoomed into the lake and saw what looked like a car.

The former resident contacted a current homeowner, who used a drone to confirm it was a white car on the edge of the pond behind his house. The man called the sheriff's office on Aug. 28, and deputies later arrived to find the white sedan's exterior "heavily calcified." After they got the car out, they found the skeletal remains inside.

The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System says Moldt went to a nightclub in November 1997 but did not appear intoxicated as he left alone before midnight. He had called his girlfriend from the club saying he would return to their Lantana home soon.
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Taliban revokes its ban on Red Cross, will provide security guarantees

Abdul Qadir Sediqi, Rupam Jain
Reuters
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 02:08 UTC
ICRC in Afghan
© Swissinfo.ch
The ICRC has been providing medical support in Afghanistan for more than 30 years. In this image from 2001, local Afghan Red Cross workers carry dead Taliban fighters after fighting ended near Mazar-i-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan.
The Taliban on Sunday revoked their ban on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Afghanistan and gave a guarantee of security for its staff doing humanitarian work in areas under their control.

Taliban leaders imposed a ban on the ICRC and the World Health Organization (WHO) in April saying the organizations were carrying out "suspicious" activities during vaccinations campaigns and not sticking to their declared missions.

"The Islamic Emirate restores the former security guarantees to ICRC in Afghanistan and instructs all mujahideen to pave the way for ICRC activities and be mindful of security to this committee's workers and equipment," Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid in a statement.
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Chaos erupts in Nantes amid 44th week of protests against Macron's economic policies


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:36 UTC
protester in Nantes France September 14 2019
© AFP / Sebastien Salom-Gomis
A protester throws a projectile during clashes with police during anti-government demonstration in Nantes, France on September 14, 2019.
Yellow Vests protests against President Emmanuel Macron's economic polices hit France for the 44th weekend in a row. It got especially heated in Nantes where clashes between police and protesters left several people injured.

Some 1,800 people took to the streets of the city on Saturday, according to police figures. This week, the Yellow Vests tried a different approach to the protests, avoiding the city's center and hitting different routes instead.


Comment: Inside the Yellow Vests: What the Western media won't tell you
...the media uses images to evoke emotional reactions. Does the media ever show the Macron regime looting people's taxes and pensions? No. Do they show French weapons being used to massacre Syrian children? No. Do they highlight absolutely anything that they should if they truly worked for the people? No. They work for oligarchs and lobbies exclusively. [..]

In the more longer term: if things remain on the current trajectory, then a civil war is on the cards. This is not a conflict on ethnic grounds. This clash concerns the system of governance. What the Yellow Vests want is so radically different from neoliberalism and the EU. It's like applying the handbrake/e-brake suddenly whilst traveling down the highway. Perhaps at first the Yellow Vests thought that a few violent protests would achieve the goals, but over time they started to realise the severity of the situation.


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Rule, Britannia! Hong Kong protesters sing ex-colonial sovereign's anthem


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:36 UTC
Protest
© REUTERS / Athit Perawongmetha
A protest at the British consulate General in Hong Kong.
Activists flocked to the UK Consulate in Hong Kong on Sunday, waving Union Jacks and singing 'God Save the Queen' in a bid to convince London to step in and protect them from Beijing like it would have in the colonial era.

The hundreds of protesters who gathered in front of the British Consulate-General claim the Chinese government is encroaching on their freedoms established under the 'one country, two systems' formula at the end of British colonial rule in 1984. Calling on the former sovereign to do something about it, they waved British flags as well as those of colonial Hong Kong, and sang patriotic British songs, including 'God Save the Queen' and 'Land of Hope and Glory'.

Britain had control over Hong Kong for decades after taking it from imperial China - a result of the Opium Wars, which reduced what was an economic powerhouse to destitution.

Since it's highly unlikely that modern Britain would launch a colonial war the way it did so often in the 19th century, the protesters have other ideas on how Her Majesty can support them. For example, granting full British citizenship to holders of the British National (Overseas) passport - a special type of document that was granted to hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong residents. It allows visa-free travel to the UK, but only for six months, and does not include work privileges.
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Site of mall fire in Russia that killed 37 children turned into memorial 'Park of Angels'


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 12:20 UTC
Memorial
© Ruptly
Screenshot from the video
A park commemorating victims of one of the deadliest fires in Russian history was opened in the city of Kemerovo. Sixty people, most of them children, perished in the conflagration at a now-demolished shopping mall.

The memorial park that was opened on Sunday is located right where the mall stood, with a pine tree planted for each person killed in March 2018. There is also a chapel with the names of the victims engraved on the walls inside and a wall evoking images of a ruined building as a reminder of the tragedy.
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Over 70 arrested in immigration protest at NYC Microsoft store


ABC News
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 07:04 UTC
Protest
Dozens of immigration policy protesters have been arrested at a demonstration outside a Microsoft store in New York City.

Police say they took 76 people into custody Saturday who blocked traffic near the Fifth Avenue store in Manhattan.

The protesters criticized Microsoft for doing business with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

They decried what they called the agency's racist campaign against immigrants and asylum seekers.
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Russia's floating nuclear power plant reaches Arctic coast, will be operational before year-end


RT
Sun, 15 Sep 2019 08:14 UTC
Russia's floating nuclear plant
© @Ruptly
After a 5,000-km sea ride, Russia's pioneering floating nuclear power plant has reached its final destination on the Arctic coast and will soon deliver megawatts and gigajoules of energy to consumers on land.

The Akademik Lomonosov was towed from Murmansk, a major port city in northwestern Russia, all the way to the far eastern region of Chukotka, reaching a small town called Pevek on Saturday. The trip lasted 22 days and required a couple of tow boats to move the barge, which lacks its own propulsion, and an icebreaker to deliver the convoy safely through the chilly Arctic waters.


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Iraqi security forces detain terrorist group plotting attack against Shiite pilgrims


Sputnik
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:18 UTC
iraq
© AFP 2019 / HUSSEIN FALEH
Iraq's security forces detained six terrorists, who planned to carry out an attack against Shiite Muslims during the annual pilgrimage of Arbaeen, the organization's press service said on Saturday.

"The security services of the city of Samarra [north of Baghdad] were able to detain a network of terrorists consisting of six criminals planning an attack during the pilgrimage of Arbaeen," the statement read.

Earlier, the Baghdad Operational Command reported that 78 people have been detained in Iraq since August on suspicion of plotting terrorist attacks during the Shiite Ashur holiday, celebrated earlier in September.

The Shiite Arbaeen pilgrimage will take place from October 19-20.

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AR-15's are flying off the shelf after AZ gun store introduces the 'Beto Special'

Wayne Dupree
Carl Higbie
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 19:01 UTC
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A gun store in Arizona is cashing in on gun-grabber Beto O'Rourke, by offering "Beto Specials" on select AR-15's.

During the Democrat primary debate in Houston, struggling 2020 candidate Beto O'Rourke vowed to seize every Americans' AR-15 guns.
Beto O'Rourke vowed to confiscate legally owned rifles during the third Democratic primary debate on Thursday evening.

the recent mass shootings in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, the former Democratic congressman said the federal government must seize certain semi-automatic rifles to prevent further tragedy.

"The high-impact, high velocity round, when it hits your body shreds everything insider your body because it was designed to do that, so that you would bleed to death on the battlefield," O'Rourke said to raucous applause.

"When we see that being used against children, and in Odessa, I met the mother of a 15-year-old girl who was shot by an AR-15 and that mother watched her bleed to death over the course of an hour because so many other people were shot by that AR-15 in Odessa, there weren't enough ambulances to get to them in time," he added. "Hell, yes, we're going to take your AR-15, your AK-47. We're not going to allow it to be used against a fellow American anymore." [National Review]
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Watch anti-govt protesters fight with Beijing supporters in Hong Kong mall - Overall tourism down 40%


RT
Sat, 14 Sep 2019 14:15 UTC
hong kong
Intense fistfights broke out at the high-end Amoy Plaza mall in the busy Kowloon district of Hong Kong, China's self-governing territory, on Saturday afternoon. Videos from the scene show the activists pulling and punching each other. Some clobbered their opponents with umbrellas and hurled objects at them.

A group of protesters were filmed chasing a man, before pinning him on the ground.

The confrontation started after hundreds of pro-Beijing activists gathered at the mall, waving China's national flags and singing the country's national anthem. A crowd of anti-government protesters later flocked to the mall to confront them, and the scuffles immediately broke out.

Some reports say the fights started after a few people were accused of taking pictures of the protesters' faces and filming them.

Comment: Pepe Escobar: Hong Kong, Kashmir: A tale of two occupations

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